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Thanks Sylvia, that definateley wasn't what was going through my mind. A big thankyou :flower: :cat:

A picture of the Waldorf Picture Theatre, it was opened in 1913

Can you please help, rest assured my mind has really gone OT on this one, lots and lots of things have crossed my mind, but I really don't know : What occupation is a WIRE DRAWER Thankyou :flower: :cat:

After digesting the Huminex of 1891, one of the "Paddy's Mills" that I was querying could be named or be something to do with a row of 5 houses called "Paddy's Row" which is of the Birmingham Road coming under Lea Marston. Right at this moment that is the only connection that I have found, but I...

Monday February 1 1943 "THERE MUST BE NO THIRD WAR" Washington Sunday - Mr Joseph Grew, former American Ambassador in Tokio, in a broadcast today, said: "We do not intend to fight this war for a third time, but demand that this cycle of oppression, impoverishment, demogogy and war be stopped...

Thursday October 5 1944 "£30 TELEVISION" Britain's radio industry expects permission within the next few days to begin developing post-war radio and television sets. This statement was made by Mr C. O. Stanley, managing director of Pye Radio. British manufacturers, he added, will have to...

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Thursday December 2 1943 "ALARM CLOCKS FOR EARLY RISERS" Workers who can fulfil three conditions will be granted an alarm clock buying permit, the Board of Trade announced last night. They are those who have to get up between midnight and five am because their work makes it necessary, who do...

Sunday July 2 1944 "NOW JIMMY HAS A LITTLE LAMB" A ten week old lamb which thrives on table scraps and weak tea, and goes for daily walks through Birmingham with its 15 year old master, owes its life to the pleadings of the lad, Jimmy Knott. The lamb, Barbara, came into Jimmy's life when it was...

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I wondered if anyone could help identifying what these medals were for, on the one box that the Loyal service medal came in, the cover says "The King's Badge", every precaution should be taken against loss, thus preventing the Badge falling into the hands of an unauthorized user. The other one...

Saturday November 15 1941 "BOARD REELS" Spools for cotton are to be made of cardboard, saving hundreds of thousands cubic feet of timber normally used each year in producing millions of wooden reels. :flower: :cat:

Thursday June 11 1942 "KEYS MAKE SALVAGE" Birmingham has begun a drive for old, unwanted keys for salvage. :flower: :cat:

Thankyou Cromwell good to see the input, only jossing  :2funny:  :2funny:                                                                  :flower: :cat: O0

Tuesday May 13 1941 "NEW POTATOES 5d. A POUND" New potatoes will be 5d. a pound next Saturday. Maximum prices for the season laid down in a Ministry of Food Order, cover sales by growers, wholesalers and retailers, and will be reduced as the season advances and supplies increase. The maximum...

Tuesday May 13 1941 "THE RIGHT BREED" When German bombers started a fire among farm buildings near an East Anglican town early yesterday it was extinguished by stampeding cattle which broke out of their stalls and trampled blazing timber underfoot. The brigade arrived to find the fire out...

Wednesday May 28 1941 "A BASIC "NO"" Mr Churchill, asked in the House yesterday if he would favour the writing of our laws in "basic English", replied in basic English: "No, Sir". :flower: :cat:

Thursday September 26 1940 "Because of black-out difficulties, notices have been posted terminating the engagements of the staffs at the Theatre Royal and the Hippodrome, Birmingham. The Empire Theatre is already shut." :flower: :cat: